Newly released footage of the 9/11 incident suggest that the US government staged the attacks on New York to eliminate the threat of Saddam Hussein to Israel and take control of Iraqi oil, a political analyst tells Press TV.

“Without any doubt anyone who takes a serious look at the physics, the engineering, the Aerodynamics of the situation realizes that virtually everything that the government told us about 9/11 is false,” he told Press TV in an interview.

He added that department of defense officials such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle, and General Richard Myers were among the figures who played influential roles in moving along the ideology of Americans approving of war against Middle Eastern countries which had not attacked the US.